The bohemian glass schools and related areas

This page has special items from the bohemian glass schools and the workshops/factories around them. The two most well know schools were Steinschönau(German)/Kamenický Šenov(Czech) and Haida(German)/Novy Bor(Czech). There were also glass schools in Prague and Železný Brod. All the items made in these areas were only done in the smallest production runs.

Haida(German)/Nový Bor(Czech)

Železný Brod –Avaition Bowl

Amazing purple bowl, around 8 inches across bowl, decorated with by biplanes, clouds, moon and other sky related images. It still has its original label from the Železný Brod school - almost certainly a student piece - and is signed JL 1937. Price £650

Železný Brod –Hlousek

Very rare and early Hlousek sand blasted vase depicting a knight fighting a three headed hydra with a castle on a hill behind. Around 11 inches tall. Hlousek, a Železný Brod graduate was one of the originators of sandblasted glass techniques like this, it still has its original label, c1930s Price £1,250